FON raises $9.5 million
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 13th Apr, 2008
Just read that FON has raised more money to help it grow. Here’s the press release:
Great news! We’ve raised another $9.5 million to grow the movement! We’ve got lots of great plans for the money. We’re going to Launch FON in Russia, launch the Fonera 2.0 (the fonera that uploads and downloads stuff to and [...]
FON-enabled highrise buildings
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Mar, 2008
Reading the FON Blog, I’m seeing that they have finally managed to deploy FON across an entire high-rise building, in the Continental Diamond Plaza in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. If you’ve never come across FON before, it’s a WiFi community where users share their Wifi, in exchange for free Wifi when they come in the [...]
FONtastic voyage
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 4th Oct, 2007
I had blogged about FON more than a year ago and it’s great to see them grow from strength to strength. Today they’re in the news together with BT announcing a joint venture in a bid to penetrate the UK market. The details of the deal are still a bit unclear, but from a technology [...]
FOn-tastic idea
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 7th Feb, 2006
Just got a great link from Andy’s blog, relating to a global shared WiFi community. Here’s the details:
FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Share your WiFi broadband access at home/work and enjoy WiFi all over the world! FON: small cost, great benefit!
To become a Fonero, all you need to do is [...]
